Spread-time Code Division Multiple Access Research Articles

Spectrally encoded code division multiple access‐based cognitive relay networks

Cognitive radio and cooperative networks are increasingly regarded as revolutionary technologies that utilise the radio spectrum efficiently. In this study, spectrally encoded (spread-time) code division multiple access (SE-CDMA) scheme is proposed as a flexible and adaptable technique for physical layer of cognitive relay networks. All primary and secondary users transmit their signals to a common base station (BS) and then the BS selects one of the cognitive secondary users based on feedback information to relay the primary user's (PU's) data. To study the efficiency of the system, two scenarios are considered. In the first scenario, the secondary users transmit their information using the SE-CDMA technique and the PU is considered narrowband. In the second scenario, both primary and secondary users utilise the SE-CDMA technique. The performance of the system is evaluated in terms of the error probability of the PU, the outage probability of the primary and secondary users and comparing theoretical results with simulations. Moreover, the performance of the proposed method is compared with orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based cognitive relaying scheme. The results indicate the efficiency of the SE-CDMA technique.

Spectrally encoded code‐division multiple access for cognitive radio networks

Recent studies have revealed that spectrum congestion is due to the inefficient usage of spectrum against the availability. Cognitive radio is viewed as an approach for improving the utilisation of radio spectrum. The spectrally encoded (spread-time) code-division multiple access (SE-CDMA) technique (which is regarded as the dual of spread spectrum CDMA) is considered and its performance in cognitive radio networks is studied. In cognitive network spectrum, overlay and underlay techniques are employed to enable the primary and secondary users to coexist while improving the overall spectrum efficiency. It is shown that SE-CDMA provides considerable flexibility to design overlay and underlay waveforms that are scenario-dependent. The performance of SE-CDMA method is evaluated in additive white Gaussian noise and fading channels in terms of both primary and secondary users. Moreover, its performance is compared with cognitive radio using soft-decision spectrally modulated spectrally encoded waveforms. The results indicate the efficiency of SE-CDMA.

Multiple-Access Performance Analysis of Combined Time-Hopping and Spread-Time CDMA System in the Presence of Narrowband Interference

We consider a combined time-hopping (TH) and spread-time (ST) multiple-access technique that uses an internal code. In this method, the duration of each bit is divided into <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Ns</i> frames. The outputs of the encoder and a pseudorandom (PN) sequence specify the number of the frame in which the data bit is transmitted in ST code-division multiple-access (ST-CDMA) form using the second PN sequence. We consider the correlator receiver, followed by the channel decoder. We obtain the performance of the combined method in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and fading channels in the presence of multiple-access interference (MAI) and narrowband interference (NBI). We also consider the conventional ST-CDMA system and compare its performance with our method. The results indicate that the proposed method has much better performance while it has the same bandwidth and spectral efficiency as the conventional ST-CDMA system. In the new method, like in the conventional ST-CDMA system, an external error-correcting code can be applied for further performance enhancement.

Spread-time CDMA resistance in fading channels

We study and examine the effect of fading channels on the performance of spread-time/code division multiple access (ST/CDMA). We consider two different models for fading channel and obtain the average signal to interference plus noise ratio (SIR) for ST/CDMA in both cases. We also obtain the SIR for spread-spectrum/CDMA (SS/CDMA) and compare the results with that of ST/CDMA. Depending upon the transmitted chip pulse shape, and in the absence of thermal noise, spread-time (ST) performance is equal to or greater than spread spectrum (SS). For example ST/CDMA has 0.62 dB higher SIR value compared to SS/CDMA with root raised cosine pulse shape with rolloff factor 0.22 used in W-CDMA. The spread-time technique was first proposed by Crespo et al. (1991, 1995), and US Patents no. 5177768, 5175744, 5175743, 5173923, and is considered as the time-frequency dual of spread spectrum technique.

Crosstalk performance of coherent time-addressed photonic CDMA networks

We report a theoretical investigation of the crosstalk performance of photonic code-division multiple access (CDMA) networks that are based on coherent matched filtering of optical pulses. We describe the importance of time gating in the reduction of noise in spread-time CDMA schemes. We give guidelines for the selection of codes in coherent matched filtering, and give a code set that produces low crosstalk. We present calculated bit-error rates (BERs) that show for individual user data rates in the gigabit per second range that crosstalk limits aggregate bit rates to the tens of gigabits per second range. This level of performance is a significant improvement over purely incoherent spread-time approaches. Such low crosstalk suggests that this scheme may be the first spread-time photonic CDMA scheme that is not crosstalk-limited.